waterheaded
English
editAdjective
editwaterheaded (comparative more waterheaded, superlative most waterheaded)
- Filled with waterheads.
- Hydrocephalic.
- 1988, Hart Wegner, Houses of Ivory, page 81:
- Lolek, the market boy, a waterheaded child of five, crawled among the wilted cabbage leaves and dead-eyed fishheads nodding his monstrous head to the shrill voice of the nun.
- 2001, Diane McWhorter, Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama:
- We rented a shotgun house from the county patriarch Hugh Jordan, and esperienced the ordinary novelties of country life: the plump redheaded babysitter who showed us her freckled bottom, the wild boy who shot my brother in the face with BBs, the waterheaded baby at the county fair.
- 2016, Paul Beatty, The Sellout:
- And lo, the mind of the little waterheaded boy with both arms wrapped about his teacher's hips, his face buried in her crotch, definitely needs a bodyguard, or at least a mental prophylactic.
- Stupid and/or ugly.
- 2008, Steven E. Schend, Blackstaff Tower, page 16:
- Kahlem's not a bad Watchman , ” Renaer said , “ but his waterheaded ideas on how to investigate crimes–"
- 2011, William Kennedy, Legs:
- Jack left it there, turned his back on Charlie and walked down the bar and into the table area where only one table was occupied: by that beauty in a white linen suit and white pumps; and at the table with her a five-foot-five, one-eyed, waterheaded gnome.
- 2012, Nick Mamatas, The Damned Highway:
- Be sure to sashay out of here and into a loveless marriage with a waterheaded Goldwater supporter.
Verb
editwaterheaded
- simple past and past participle of waterhead